1. Introduction
(Gathering Some Basic Tools for the Journey)
Introduction to the Course
Mon., Jan. 7 Hockey,
Chapter One: "Why Electronic Texts"
Introduction to CCAT: Getting Around in Unix (The Old Ways are still with us!)
Wed., Jan. 9
Castro, HTML4, 334-337
Encoding for Applications Part One: HTML, DHTMLM
HTML
Mon., Jan. 14
Castro, HTML4, 11-56;
97-133
Wed., Jan. 16
Castro,
HTML4, 135-216
DHTML
Mon., Jan. 21--No Class
Wed., Jan. 23
Castro,
HTML4, 243-290
Introduction to JavaScript as a Tool for Developing Humanities Applications
Mon., Jan. 28
Negrino,1-68
Wed., Jan. 30 Negrino,
69-138
Mon., Feb. 4 Negrino,
139-156
Wed., Feb. 6 Negrino,
187-234; Presentation Topic Due
2. The History of Humanities Computing
(Gaining Perspective on Old and New Issues)
Mon., Feb. 11 Joseph Raben, "Humanities
Computing 25 Years Later" Computers and the
Humanities 25 (December, 1991):341-350 (On Reserve in the Library)
Explore:
Offline (Past articles available on the web)
Computers and the Humanities (Journal from 1966-the present) Z699.5 H9 C64
On reserve in the Library:
Susan M. Hockey, Guide to Computer Application in the Humanities (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980). AZ105 .H63 1980b
Willard McCarty, The Humanities Computing Yearbook (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991). Z699.5.H8 H85
3. The Computer as Library: Gathering, Accessing and Manipulating Texts
(A General Introduction to the Generation of Electronic Texts)
Producing Texts: Scanning, Optical Character Recognition
Wed., Feb. 13 Project
Topic Due
Hockey, Chapter Two: "Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts"
Hockey, Chapter Three: "Text Encoding"
Mon., Feb. 18 Mid-Term Exam
Foreign Language Representation
Wed., Feb. 20
Castro, XML,247-250
Encoding for Applications Part Two:
Introduction to Advanced Textual Markup: SGML and XML
Mon., Feb. 25
Castro,
XML, 11-91
XML and Its Potential for the Humanities
Why Should Humanists
Care"
Castro, XML, 93-173
Exploring a Specific Application of XML to Text Encoding
Mon., Mar. 4
Castro,
XML, 175-236
Making Things Public: Intellectual Property Issues
Wed., Mar. 6 O'Donnell 92-98
("Hyperlink: Who Owns that Idea?")
Mon., Mar. 11-Wed. Mar. 13
No Class-Spring Break
4. The Computer as Museum: Displaying and Viewing Digitized Objects
(Maximizing the potential for scholarship and research--standards for
digitization, photographic and scanning technologies, etc.)
Mon., Mar. 18 Castro, HTML4, 57-95
5. The Computer as Darkroom for Image Enhancement and Manipulation
(Maximizing potential for manuscript studies--paleography, fragment matching,
visual effects; for art history, archaeological analysis, etc.)
digitized papyri)
6. Multi-Media Applications and Beyond)
(Exploring Applications for scholarship and research in a "multi-media" environment
including audio and video capabilities and relevant new directions.))
Mon., Mar. 25
Castro, HTML4, 217-238
7. Specific Developed Humanities Applications)
Introduction to Perl/CGI as a Tool for Developing Humanities Applications)
Wed., Mar. 27; Mon., Apr. 1; Wed.,
Apr. 3, Begin reading the rest of O'Donnell
The Computer as Concordance for Texts
(What to search for and how (e. g. contextual elements, morphological elements, etc.)
Mon., Apr. 8 Hockey, Chapter Four:
"Concordance and Text Retrieval Programs";
Continue reading O'Donnell
The Computer as a Tool for Statistical and Stylistic Analysis
(What to count, and why--e. g. poetic cadences, vocabulary frequencies; Structures of
language and thought)
Wed., Apr. 10 Hockey
Chapter Five: "Literary Analysis";
Hockey, Chapter Six: "Linguistic Analysis"
Hockey, Chapter Seven: "Stylometry and Attribution Studies";
The Computer as a Tool for Textual Criticism and Lexical Studies
Mon., Apr. 15 Hockey Chapter Eight:
"Textual Criticism and Electronic Editions";
Hockey, Chapter Nine: "Dictionaries and Lexical Databases";
Continue reading O'Donnell
8. Computers and the Future of the Humanities
(Exploring the Effects of the Current Technological Revolution in Light of the Past)
Discussion of James J. O'Donnell's, Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
Wed., Apr. 17 PROJECTS DUE; Finish reading
O'Donnell;
Hockey, Chapter Ten: "Where Next?"
